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B. I. DE WITT.

CURTAIN GUIDE. N0. 275,163. Patented Apr. 3, 1.883.

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UNITED STATES EMIL F. DE WITT, F LANSINGBUBG,

NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO STEPHEN PALMER, OF SAME PLACE.

CURTAIN-GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,163, dated April 3, 183.

Application filed August 16, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. F. DE \VITT, of Lao singburg, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Guides; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of IO this specification, in which- Figure l is an elevation of a window-frame having my improved guides applied to it,and showing a curtain or shade rolled up above the guides. Fig. 2 is a similar view 'of the {5 same parts, showing the curtain or shade drawn partly down between the guides. Fig. 3 is a view of one of the guides before it is bent, and Fig. 4 shows in perspective aguide ready for application to a window-frame.

The objects of my invention are to prevent a curtain or shade from running crooked on its roller; also, to prevent the edge of acurtain from undue wear; and, finally, to provide simple means for keeping the curtain in close 2 relation to the window-frame. These objects I accomplish by means of flat bifurcated guides, which are constructed and adapted to operate as will be hereinafter described, and as Ihave illustrated in the annexed drawings.

The letter A designates a window-frame, and B a curtain or shade, which may be made in the usual well-known manner. The curtain or shade B is applied on a roller, which may be provided with the common fixtures for opcrating it.

At suitable distances below the roller I secure to the uprights of the window-frame A my improved guides, as illustrated in Figs. 1

ner and for the purposes described.

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and 2. I usually employ two guides arranged in the same horizontal plane. Each guide is constructed as follows:

C C designate two flat tongues which are in the same straight line, and D D are two laterally-extended ears which are perforated to receive nails or screws, by means of which 5 the guide is secured rigidly to the windowframe. These ears D D, together with the two tongues G O, are formed of a single piece of metal, which may be sheet metal struck up, as shown in Fig. 3, although I do not confine myself to making the guides out of sheet metal. The tongue 0 is the longest of the two tongues, and this one is bent on itself, so as to form aflat hook-shaped guide, as represented in Figs." 1, 2, and 4, between the two tongues of which the edges of the shade are received.

By my improved device the curtain is guided straight on the roller in its up and down movements.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of the flat hook-shaped guides with a window shade or curtain which is applied to a roller, substantially in the man- 2. The new article of manufacture, consist- 5 ing of the fiat hook-shaped guide 0 G D D, constructed to operate substantially in the manner and for the purposes described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own 1 affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EMIL FRIEDERIGH DE WITT.

I'Vitnesses:

JOHN QUINN, ISAAC L. VAN VOAST. 

